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'The love of a pitiable dog': Gregariousness, reciprocity and altruism in early twentieth-century British social psychology (2015)
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Swanson, G. (2015). 'The love of a pitiable dog': Gregariousness, reciprocity and altruism in early twentieth-century British social psychology. In A. Harris, & T. Jones (Eds.), Love and Romance in Britain, 1918 - 1970 (161-187). London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137328632

The interwar period is commonly figured as a period of cultural pessimism and uncertainty, as the traumatic wound to hope brought about by of the Great War was translated into an intellectual climate characterized by Richard Overy as a ‘morbid age’.... Read More about 'The love of a pitiable dog': Gregariousness, reciprocity and altruism in early twentieth-century British social psychology.